January 8 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: GOP Plans an Election Year Push For Tax Cuts Rejected in 1999 |
January 8 - POLITICS: 21 GOP-Held House Seats Up for Grabs in November As Retirement List Grows |
January 8 - What's Ahead |
January 15 - What's Ahead |
January 22 - LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK: Players Pull Defining Issues From a Tangle of Politics |
January 22 - POLITICS: Kerrey's Decision to Retire Shores Up GOP in Senate |
January 29 - Clinton's Soaring Proposals Unlikely to Alter Congress' Course |
January 29 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Mansfield on Leadership, Teamwork And 'Individualism' In Congress |
January 29 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: The Evolving Form of the Founders' Vision |
January 29 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Transforming The Nation by Fits and Starts |
January 29 - POLITICS: Goode's Alignment With GOP Hurts Democrats' Chances Of Taking Control of House |
January 29 - PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Clinton Calls for an American Century Of Opportunity, Responsibility, Community |
January 29 - What's Ahead |
February 5 - BUDGET: GOP Leaders Push for 2-Year Budget Cycles |
February 5 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Rep. Vento To Retire; Cites Health |
February 5 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Term Limits Movement Strikes Out in New Direction |
February 5 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Traficant Says He'll Take On Justice Probe |
February 5 - TAXES: Quick Fix for 'Marriage Penalty' Held Up by Partisan Jostling |
February 5 - Watts Watch: Term Limits 'Not an Issue' |
February 5 - What's Ahead |
February 12 - POLITICS: Temperamental Journey: What Makes McCain Grate |
February 12 - What's Ahead |
February 19 - : House E-Signature Conferees All Come From Commerce |
February 19 - A Redistricting Free-for-All In the Digital Age |
February 19 - BUDGET: House and Senate Republicans About $20 Billion Apart on Discretionary Spending Limit |
February 19 - Few States' Redistricting Procedures Depart From the Legislative Path |
February 19 - The Hidden Election: Day of the Mapmaker |
February 26 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Charges of Religious Bias Paralyze House Efforts To Choose a Chaplain |
February 26 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Issues Held Hostage in War Between Action, Gridlock |
February 26 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Prescription Drug Coverage Dragged Quickly Into the Fray |
February 26 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Senate Leaders' Parliamentary Ploys |
February 26 - POLITICS: Bush's Struggle Reminds GOP Of the Virtue of Self-Reliance |
March 11 - : GAO Probes FBI Official's Actions In Wen Ho Lee Case |
March 11 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Grass Greener After Congress |
March 11 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: McCain's Senate Career Likely to Be Well Served By Time on the Hustings |
March 11 - CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Rep. Bliley's Retirement Sets Up Tauzin-Oxley Contest For Commerce Chairmanship |
March 11 - ON CAPITOL HILL: What's Ahead |
March 11 - POLITICS ELECTIONS: Parties Study Primary Results From California for Clues To Control of Next Congress |
March 25 - Chairmen's Term Limits Already Shaking Up House |
March 25 - Democrats Counter GOP Offer On E-Signature Conference |
March 25 - Democrats Spurn Limits |
March 25 - Hastert's Selection of Catholic As House Chaplain Fails to End Recriminations About Process |
March 25 - Inside Congress: Kasich's Understudy |
March 25 - Member profile |
March 25 - Senate Bill Would Tighten Security on Federal Computers |
March 25 - What's Ahead |
April 1 - Another Fine Loophole |
April 1 - Dole Recalls the Good Old Days |
April 1 - It Keeps Growing, and Growing, and Growing . . . |
April 1 - What's Ahead |
April 8 - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA |
April 8 - Lott vs. the Hill's Spenders: No-Win Battle for GOP? |
April 8 - What's Ahead |
April 15 - A Senator by Any Other Name . . . |
April 15 - In Defense of a Controversial Law |
April 15 - Ready to Serve in the 107th |
April 15 - What's Ahead |
April 22 - A Potential Conflict for Journalists |
April 22 - Africa Trade Bill Still Needs Tinkering |
April 22 - Gephardt Gets a Misguided Thank You |
April 22 - What's Ahead |
April 29 - Clinton Calls Nuclear Waste Bill 'Step Backward' That Would Halt New EPA Radiation Standards |
April 29 - Searching High and Low for Campaign Funds |
April 29 - What's Ahead |
May 6 - DCCC Accuses DeLay of Racketeering |
May 6 - Democrats: GOP Cooking the Budget |
May 6 - Former Staffer a Shoo-In for Boss' Seat |
May 6 - What's Ahead |
May 13 - Campaign Overhaul Mired In Money and Loopholes |
May 13 - House Leaders Reviving Debate on Revamping Budget Process |
May 13 - Piggyback Supplemental Aid May Get a Rough Ride |
May 13 - What's Ahead |
May 20 - Clinton and Greenspan: Free Trade With China Enhances Security, Prosperity, Freedom |
May 20 - Commercial Bank Reserve Bill Approved |
May 20 - Democrats Hope to Clamp Down on 'Stealth PACs' |
May 20 - In Conservative Idaho, Ads Are the Issue |
May 20 - Members Get That Queasy Feeling About COLAs Again |
May 20 - No Quorum, No Peace |
May 20 - What's Ahead |
May 27 - Amended Boxing Promotion Bill Wins House Passage |
May 27 - House Increases Vets' Monthly Tuition Reimbursement |
May 27 - House Passes Telephone Tax Repeal |
May 27 - NTSB Still Hunting for Funds |
May 27 - Pirated Music Finds a Friend |
May 27 - Resources Joins Battle Over Fort Sumter |
May 27 - Senate's Partisan Stalemate Has Major Bills Languishing |
May 27 - Senator Blocks Action on Nuclear Post |
May 27 - The Price of a Broken Promise |
May 27 - What's Ahead |
June 3 - Appropriations Beckon As Congress Returns From Recess |
June 3 - Bills Signed |
June 3 - Lazio Successor Not Yet Anointed |
June 3 - What's Ahead |
June 10 - Archer Not Planning to Go Quietly |
June 10 - Getting Acquainted in Jersey |
June 10 - H-1B Delay Allows Opposition to Expand Attack |
June 10 - NEA and the Art Of Pleasing Congress |
June 10 - NEA in the Cross Hairs |
June 10 - U.S. Relations With Cuba: Beginning to Thaw? |
June 10 - What's Ahead |
June 17 - Bipartisan 'Brownfields' Bill Introduced in Senate |
June 17 - Choosing GOP Chairmen |
June 17 - Easing the Transition |
June 17 - Electricity Not Buzzing |
June 17 - House Panel Seeks Internet Privacy Study |
June 17 - Rep. Crane's Next Challenge: Convince Colleagues He Can Lead |
June 17 - Seniors Groups Preserving Privileges |
June 17 - Walsh Moves to Keep Fighters in District |
June 17 - Ways and Means: A Power in the House |
June 17 - What's Ahead |
June 24 - Budget Surplus Expected to Grow |
June 24 - Dodd Loses Connecticut Chopper Fight |
June 24 - What's Ahead |
July 1 - Beam Me Up, Mr. Speaker! |
July 1 - Congress Likely to Accept Pay Raise This Year |
July 1 - Fourth of July Recess |
July 1 - Supreme Court Declines to Hear Illinois State Title IX Challenge |
July 8 - Administration Mining New Regulations |
July 8 - Clinton: 'Time Is Running Out For Congress to Meet Its Obligations To the American People. . . .' |
July 8 - Hang 'Em High -- Chairmen Raise Cash for the Arts |
July 8 - Voting Drops When Higher Office Beckons |
July 8 - What's Ahead |
July 15 - Clinton to Nominate Arkansan As Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
July 15 - Defining 'Reconciliation' |
July 15 - From The Editor |
July 15 - House Resources Panel Moves Against Watchdog Group |
July 15 - Istook Objects |
July 22 - Commodities Law Rewrite Advances |
July 22 - Contempt Resolution Approved In Whistleblower Probe |
July 22 - Danforth Absolves U.S. Officials In Deaths of Branch Davidians |
July 22 - Mineta to 'Make a Difference' As New Commerce Secretary |
July 22 - Sen. Paul Coverdell's Sudden Death Costs GOP One of its Top Strategists And Possibly One Seat in the Fall |
July 22 - What's Ahead |
July 29 - Ahead |
July 29 - Clinton Reproaches Republicans For Leaving 'Unfinished Business,' Saying 'There Is a Better Way' |
July 29 - Gun Deal Still Under Scrutiny |
July 29 - Lott Pulls a New Trick Out of the Past |
July 29 - Republicans Cite Achievements, Including Social Security, Medicare, Debt Reduction, Marriage Tax Relief |
July 29 - Russians Preach Tax Relief to Republicans |
July 29 - Web Preservation |
August 5 - Ahead |
August 5 - Archives Renovation: False Alarm? |
August 5 - Boxer: No Twists for Me, Argentina |
August 5 - Congress Honors Reagans, Still Considering Carters |
August 5 - Lee in the Hot Seat Again |
September 2 - Ahead |
September 2 - Clinton Vetoes Estate Tax Repeal, Calling Bill 'Fiscally Irresponsible' |
September 2 - Conciliatory Congress Faces a Noncommittal Clinton |
September 2 - Gore Calls 'Working Families' His Priority as He Accepts Democratic Nomination |
September 2 - High Beams on SUV Safety |
September 2 - Lawmaker's Russia Dealings at Issue |
September 2 - Lieberman: Speed It Up |
September 2 - Strong Contenders in Minnesota's 4th |
September 2 - Taking the Measure Of a Chairman Rangel |
September 2 - With Budget Clock Ticking, GOP Will Have to Pick Its Battles |
September 9 - Ahead |
September 9 - Bilbray's Power Fight |
September 9 - Campbell Bill Has Catch |
September 9 - Clinton, Assessing Fall Agenda, Says GOP's Emphasis on Tax Cut Is Unfair and Irresponsible |
September 9 - Hastert Agrees to Remove Estate Tax, Pension Provisions in Quest for Deal On Minimum Wage, Business Tax Cuts |
September 9 - Senate Passes Bill to Step Up Pipeline Safety Program |
September 9 - Tauzin's Tire Hearing Creates Buzz |
September 16 - Ahead |
September 16 - Arbitration in Auto Contracts Would Be Voluntary Under Bill |
September 16 - CFTC, SEC Reach Agreement To Share Oversight Duties |
September 16 - Congress Likes Mitchell for Peace Prize |
September 16 - Debt Reduction Woes |
September 16 - GOP Defends the Scouts |
September 16 - GOP Leaders' Promise to CATs May Help Bills Pass by a Whisker |
September 16 - GOP's Hope for Graceful Exit Rides on Debt Reduction Plan |
September 16 - House Panel Moves to Get Out of Music Disputes |
September 16 - Nursing Homes Hoping for More Money |
September 16 - Rep. Bateman Eulogized as 'Valued Leader' |
September 16 - Rep. Forbes Loses Seat |
September 16 - Senate Proposal Would Allow Judges to Accept Honoraria |
September 23 - . . . and Honors Territorial Guard |
September 23 - Ahead |
September 23 - GOP Tries to Patch Its Divisions As Spending Bill Strategy Collapses |
September 23 - Grams Ends Hold on Seven Nominees |
September 23 - Hate Crimes Law, Nuclear Worker Payments Stall Defense Bill |
September 23 - Impeachment Issue Still Dogs Rogan |
September 23 - No Charges Against Clintons In Whitewater Probe |
September 23 - Panel to Federal Agencies: Obey Court Rulings |
September 23 - Smith Leads Effort to Protect Everglades |
September 23 - Stevens Moves to Block Pension Contribution Increase . . . |
September 30 - A Different Sense of Urgency |
September 30 - Ahead |
September 30 - Congress Will Raise Caps Quietly |
September 30 - Gorton Campaign Besieged by Outside Groups |
September 30 - Hastert and the Limits Of Persuasion |
September 30 - Recognition of Armenian Genocide Provokes Fight |
September 30 - Reno, Freeh Chastised Over Handling of Lee Case |
October 7 - AIDS Funding Formula May Change |
October 7 - An Immovable President Meets Irresistible Pork |
October 7 - Auto Dealer Arbitration Bill Stalls in Senate Judiciary |
October 7 - Bill Calls for GAO Review Of New Federal Rules |
October 7 - Bill Would Allow Medicaid To Cover Breast, Cervical Cancer |
October 7 - Internet Privacy Protection Bill Appears Dead for the Year |
October 7 - Move to Reduce Stock Fees Approved by House Commerce |
October 7 - Panel Likens Missing E-Mail To Watergate |
October 7 - Senate OKs Aid for Rural Areas Dependent on Timber |
October 7 - Shuster Calls Action 'Overkill' After Ethics Panel Reproves Him For Misconduct, Rules Violations |
October 7 - Substitute Electronic Crime Bill Adopted by Senate Judiciary |
October 7 - What's Ahead |
October 7 - Yates Dead at 91; Illinois Democrat Was House Institution |
October 14 - A Strange Calm on Capitol Hill As GOP Opts for Unrushed Exit |
October 14 - Go Home and Fight or Stay and Vote: Embattled Incumbents' Dilemma |
October 14 - House Clears Bill To Extend Visa Waiver Program |
October 14 - House Clears Bill To Stabilize Rural Town Payments |
October 14 - Move to Raise H-1B Visa Fees Heading to President |
October 14 - Outgoing Senators Share Some Wealth |
October 14 - Panel's Limited Immunity Grant May Not Shield Shuster From Federal Prosecution |
October 14 - Rep. Vento Remembered As Friend of Environment And 'the Little Guy' |
October 14 - Seriously Humorous |
October 14 - Shelby Spins Out |
October 14 - The Challenge of Support |
October 14 - What's Ahead |
October 21 - Baucus Sued By His Former Chief of Staff |
October 21 - High-Tech May Not Mean High Support |
October 21 - Republicans Expected to Welcome Back Floor Votes |
October 21 - Supreme Court Refuses to Hear D.C. Congressional Rights Case |
October 21 - Three Bills Cleared to Clinton Would Benefit Veterans |
October 21 - Traficant May Get 'Beamed Out' of Democratic Caucus |
October 21 - What's Ahead |
October 28 - A Rising Republican's Quest for Balance |
October 28 - Coalition of Interests, Budget Surplus Won New Benefits for Military Retirees |
October 28 - Congress Clears Measure To Restore Estuaries |
October 28 - GOP Drops Contempt Measure Against Watchdog Group |
October 28 - Insurers' Queasiness About Costs Helped Sink GOP Prescription Drug Bill |
October 28 - Need a Building Named? 'Suspension' Bills Fill Calendar |
October 28 - Symbolism and Stalemate Closing Out 106th Congress |
October 28 - Tax, Wage Bill Hurtles Toward Veto After GOP Adds Disputed Policy Riders |
October 28 - What's Ahead |
November 4 - A Long Tradition of Contested Speakerships |
November 4 - Bipartisan Deal Falls Through On OSHA Ergonomics Rules |
November 4 - Club for Growth of the House Republican Party |
November 4 - Gephardt's Charge |
November 4 - Nurse Anesthetists Lobby for More Latitude |
November 4 - President Chides Congress In Veto of Combined Appropriations For Not Making People a Priority |
November 4 - The 'Plan': Go Home, Limp Back After Voters Set the Agenda |
November 4 - What's Ahead |
November 11 - A Divided Nation Has Much to Lose In Battle of Ballots |
November 11 - A Farmer-Friendly Finance Panel, A Ways and Means Free-for-All? |
November 11 - Capitol Hill: Final Campus For Electoral College? |
November 11 - Clinton the Most Visible in New Wave of New Women in Congress |
November 11 - Committees: House Profiles |
November 11 - Committees: Power Plays and Term Limits |
November 11 - Committees: Senate Profiles |
November 11 - Current Congress: Lame Duck at a Crossroads |
November 11 - Governors: GOP Primed for Redistricting |
November 11 - Hillary Rodham Clinton-- The First Lady Joins the Club |
November 11 - House: GOP Maintains Thin Edge |
November 11 - House: The Limits of Outreach |
November 11 - Issues: Fast Start on a Familiar Agenda |
November 11 - New Democrats Looking For Larger Role in 107th Congress |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Adam Putnam |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Adam Schiff |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Ander Crenshaw |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Ben Nelson |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Betty McCollum |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Bill Nelson |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Brad Carson |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Brian D. Kerns |
November 11 - New Member Profile: C. L. 'Butch' Otter |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Darrell Issa |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Debbie Stabenow |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Denny Rehberg |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Dick Zimmer * |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Edward L. Schrock |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Eric I. Cantor |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Felix J. Grucci Jr. |
November 11 - New Member Profile: George F. Allen |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Henry Brown |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Hilda Solis |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Hillary Rodham Clinton |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Jane Harman |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Jean Carnahan |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Jeff Flake |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Jim Langevin |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Jim Matheson |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Jo Ann Davis |
November 11 - New Member Profile: John Culberson |
November 11 - New Member Profile: John Ensign |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Jon Corzine |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Maria Cantwell |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Mark Dayton |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Mark Kennedy * |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Mark Steven Kirk |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Melissa Hart |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Mike Ferguson |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Mike Honda |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Mike Pence |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Mike Rogers * |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Mike Ross |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Pat Tiberi |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Richard 'Ric' Keller |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Rick Larsen |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Rob Simmons |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Sam Graves |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Shelley Moore Capito |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Steven Israel |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Susan A. Davis |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Thomas R. Carper |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Timothy V. Johnson |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Todd Akin |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Todd Platts |
November 11 - New Member Profile: Tom Osborne |
November 11 - New Member Profile: William Lacy Clay Jr. |
November 11 - President Vetoes Intelligence Bill, Citing Fear that 'Overbroad' Language Would Hurt Legitimate Flow of Information |
November 11 - Private Parties' Last-Minute Spending Spree |
November 11 - Senate: Momentum Swing |
November 11 - Senate: Searching for the Vital Center |
November 11 - Survival of the Surplus |
November 11 - The Balance of Power in 2002 and Beyond |
November 11 - The Presidential Contenders' Key Contacts on the Hill |
November 11 - What's Ahead |
November 18 - 'Soft Money' Cushion |
November 18 - 12 Members Who'll Breathe Easier |
November 18 - Cantwell-Gorton Count Continues; GOP Leads in 4 of 5 Close House Races |
November 18 - Domenici to Seek Craig's Post |
November 18 - First Test of Promised Comity Is Late Lame-Duck Session |
November 18 - House Freshmen's Focus: Not Chads, But Nuts and Bolts of Capitol Life |
November 18 - Senate's Procedural Pitfall For Appropriations Bills |
November 18 - What's Ahead |
November 18 - With Leaders' Posts Uneventfully Filled, Chairmanship Competition Gets Serious |
December 2 - Back on the Hustings |
December 2 - Cooperation or Chaos: Organizing a 50-50 Senate |
December 2 - Electors of Last Resort |
December 2 - Lobbyists Temper Expectations |
December 2 - No Oasis of Certainty In Laws on Succession |
December 2 - The Court and Public Opinion |
December 9 - 'Blue Dog' Democrats Have Their Day in the Sun |
December 9 - Bills Signed |
December 9 - Choosing Chairmen: Tradition's Role Fades |
December 9 - Clinton's Safe, But Where Will She Sit? |
December 9 - DeLay Floats Notion of Leaving Spending Bills for 107th Congress |
December 9 - Democrats' Pitch for Parity |
December 9 - Experts Question Bush Team's View That the Slowing Economy Justifies a Big Tax Cut |
December 9 - It Pays to Be Greenspan |
December 9 - Measure Would Expand Law Protecting Former Presidents |
December 9 - Rep. Julian C. Dixon Dies at 66; Remembered for Selflessness, Taking on Thankless Tasks |
December 9 - Senate Clears $71.3 Million For Ocean, Fisheries Programs |
December 9 - Supreme Court Vacates 'Unclear' Ruling On Florida's Presidential Ballots |
December 9 - What's Ahead |
December 9 - With Senate Evenly Split, Health Could Tip the Balance |
December 16 - 2000 Legislative Summary: Campaign Finance |
December 16 - 2000 Legislative Summary: Ethics |
December 16 - Breaux May Prove an Asset to Bush In Senate, if Not in Cabinet |
December 16 - Bush Evokes Jefferson, Calls for Tackling Society's Problems 'One Person at a Time' |
December 16 - Bush's Capitol Course Relies On Cheney's Steadying Hand |
December 16 - CQ Key Votes 2000: New GOP Legislative Tactics Fail to Get Bills Past Clinton |
December 16 - Election Overhaul Proposals Spring Up |
December 16 - Facing the Judgment of History |
December 16 - Finessing the Early Months |
December 16 - Five Weeks of Challenges |
December 16 - Freshmen on the Fringe of Election's Chaos |
December 16 - GOP Prevails in Last Two Recounts |
December 16 - Gore Concedes Election to Bush, Pledges to Support President-Elect |
December 16 - High Court Ends Presidential Vote Recount, Citing Equal Protection, Due Process |
December 16 - House Key Votes 2000 |
December 16 - Lott, Daschle Show Flexibility In Talks on Organizing Senate |
December 16 - Omnibus Spending Deal Clears As White House Settles for Less |
December 16 - Parties' Ambitious Agendas Made Little Headway in 106th |
December 16 - Right Sees an End to Its Wait |
December 16 - Roundtable Backs Single Financial Services Panel |
December 16 - Senate Key Votes 2000 |
December 16 - Session's Highlights |
December 16 - What's Ahead |
December 16 - When Clinton Took 'Listening Tour,' Voters Listened |